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Typology of recreational-tourism resources as an important element of the tourist offer

Gjorgievski, Mijalce; Kozuharov, Saso; Nakovski, Dejan - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 4 (2013) 1, pp. 53-60

Tourism or the hospitality industry is among those economic activities that apart from realizing direct economic profits, it directly or indirectly impacts on the development of many other industries. Tourism through the tourist movements has a major impact on the geographical space, this effect...

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Remittances, expenditure patterns, and gender : parametric and semiparametric evidence from Ecuador

Göbel, Kristin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-19

This study estimates the impact of migrants’ remittances on households’ spending decisions in Ecuador. Applying both parametric and semiparametric techniques, we find strong evidence that remittances enhance expenditures on education, health, and housing, but decrease expenditures on food....

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Immigrant over- and under-education : the role of home country labour market experience

Piracha Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vadean, Florin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

Literature on the immigrant labour market mismatch has not explored the signal provided by the quality of home country work experience, particularly that of education-occupation mismatch prior to migration.We show that type of work experience in the home country plays a significant role in...

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Nonmyopia and incentives in the piecewise linearized MDP procedures with variable step-sizes

Sato, Kimitoshi - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

The paper formulates a piecewise linearized version of the procedure developed by Sato (1983) and analyzes its properties. In so doing, Fujigaki’s (1981) private goods economy is extended to involve a public good; and the intertemporal game of Champsaur and Laroque is piecewise localized by...

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¿Por qué el distanciamiento ideológico disminuye la provisión de bienes públicos? ; una explicación basada en el empleo clientelar

Gatica Arreola, Leonardo A. - In: Estudios de economía 39 (2012) 1, pp. 27-51

This paper presents a model of political competition to explore the effect that the ideological distance between two political parties has over the provision of public goods. The main result argues that the ideological distance between parties and citizens has a negative relationship with the...

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Percepción empresarial de la mejora del enlace ferroviario Vigo-Oporto y modelización de la elección modal

Sánchez Sellero, Francisco Javier; Cruz González, … - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 17 (2011) 1, pp. 159-175

This work analyzes the use of the train by the Galician companies when they do business transactions with northern Portuguese operators. The residual usage of this infrastructure (0.01 of all the transactions) is proved opposite the masive use of the truck; factors that explain the choice and...

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Economic order quantity with imperfect quality, destructive testing acceptance sampling, and inspection errors

Al-Salamah, Muhammad - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 59-75

acceptance sampling plan before the lot can be accepted. In addition, for real life cases, destructive testing of items in the …. This paper will develop an EOQ model when items are of perfect and imperfect quality and a single acceptance sampling plan … there are inspection errors. - economic order quantity ; imperfect quality ; acceptance sampling ; inspection errors …

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Alleviating extreme poverty in Chile : the short term effects of Chile Solidario

Galasso, Emanuela - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 101-127

This paper evaluates the effect of an anti-poverty program, Chile Solidario, during its first two years of operation. We find that the program tends to increases significantly their take-up of cash assistance programs and of social programs for housing and employment, and to improve education...

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Artificial neural networks for predicting real estate prices

Núñez Tabales, Julia M.; Caridad y Ocerin, José María; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 15 (2013), pp. 29-44

Econometric models, in the estimation of real estate prices, are a useful and realistic approach for buyers and for local and fiscal authorities. From the classical hedonic models to more data driven procedures, based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), many papers have appeared in economic...

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Price discovery and asymmetric volatility spillovers in Indian spot-futures gold markets

Srinivasan, P.; Ibrahim, P. - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 3, pp. 65-80

This study attempts to examine the price discovery process and volatility spillovers in Gold futures and spot markets of National Commodity Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) by employing Johansen’s Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) and the Bivariate ECM-EGARCH(1,1) model. The empirical result...

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